Results
This year's challenge received 15 very good submissions and the teams totaled 42 members from all over the world. Three entries were selected as winners.
Winning Teams
- First Place: Salles Viana Gomes Magalhães (Universidade Federal de Viçosa), W. Randolph Franklin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Ricardo dos Santos Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Viçosa) [won $500 in cash]
- Second Place: Thomas C. van Dijk (Würzburg University), Tobias Greiner (Würzburg University), Bas den Heijer (ORTEC), Nadja Henning (Würzburg University), Felix Klesen (Würzburg University), Andre Löffler (Würzburg University) [won $300 cash]
- Third Place: Zach Goldthorpe (University of Alberta, Canada), Jason Cannon (University of Alberta, Canada), Jesse Farebrother (University of Alberta, Canada), Zachary Friggstad (University of Alberta, Canada), Mario A. Nascimento (University of Alberta, Canada)[won $200 cash]
Paper of the Winning Teams
All winning teams were invited to publish a paper describing their approach in the proceedings of SIGSPATIAL GIS.
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Fast Analysis of Upstream Features on Spatial Networks
Salles Viana Gomes Magalhães (Universidade Federal de Viçosa), W. Randolph Franklin (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Ricardo dos Santos Ferreira (Universidade Federal de Viçosa) -
Wüpstream: Efficient Enumeration of Upstream Features
Thomas C. van Dijk (Würzburg University), Tobias Greiner (Würzburg University), Bas den Heijer (ORTEC), Nadja Henning (Würzburg University), Felix Klesen (Würzburg University), Andre Löffler (Würzburg University) -
Using Biconnected Components for Efficient Identification of Upstream Features in Large Spatial Networks
Zach Goldthorpe (University of Alberta, Canada), Jason Cannon (University of Alberta, Canada), Jesse Farebrother (University of Alberta, Canada), Zachary Friggstad (University of Alberta, Canada), Mario A. Nascimento (University of Alberta, Canada)